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Article #26827Re: Help with ftp
From: William R. Pearson
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1988 03:28
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1988 03:28
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>I've just tried my first ftp from sumex-aim. I used binary ftp and got a >Stuffit file onto my vax. What I'm having problems with is getting the file >from the vax to my mac. I've tried all variations on Kermit, but Stuffit >always rejects the result because of a "bad header". I've also tried a thing >called macput that came with Sumacc many years ago. Again, no luck. Can >anybody help? Your problem is probably due to using binary ftp. Most of the stuff on sumex-aim is in *.hqx format, an ascii coding of binary. So to get the stuff from sumex-aim, you need to do an ascii transfer. You should be able to read the line: (This file must be ... with binhex 4.0) or some such at the begining. You then download it and convert it with binhex (and then perhaps stuffit or pit). sumex-aim (a tops-20 machine) has binary that is very very strange. Bill Pearson wrp@virginia.EDU
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!nrl-cmf!ukma!gatech!ncsuvx!mcnc!uvaarpa!hudson!biochsn!wrp From: wrp@biochsn.acc.virginia.edu (William R. Pearson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Help with ftp Message-ID: <307@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> Date: 29 Mar 88 03:28:26 GMT References: <2678@altura.srcsip.UUCP> <10134@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com> Sender: news@hudson.acc.virginia.edu Reply-To: wrp@biochsn.acc.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson) Distribution: na Organization: University of Virginia, Charlottesville Lines: 17